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The Jones Act, a 1920 shipping law that costs Puerto Rico and Hawaii A 1920 law says cargo between American ports must ride American-built ships, and the islands pay. The case for reform, with the defense argument heard first. Henry Ford's Five-Dollar Day and the Assembly Line That Built a Middle Class Ford turned the car into a worker's tool and then doubled pay to keep his workers, a lesson in productivity and wages with the stain on his record told plainly. Cash for Clunkers destroyed working cars in 2009 to stimulate the economy Washington paid people to trade in working cars, had the engines ruined on purpose, and later studies found it mostly moved sales forward in time. The Railroad Commission of 1887 That Became the Model for Every Federal Agency The ICC lived 108 years, from rate cop to railroad ally to casualty of deregulation, and its life story is the pattern for most agencies.